Well or cistern cooler.



C. F. PHILLIPS.

WELL 0R CISTERN COOLER.

APPLICATION FILED Dic. s, 1915.

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WELL 0R CISTERN COOLER.

APPLICATION FILED Dec. 6. 1915.

CHARLES E. PHILLIPS, or BLAND, MISSOURI.

WELL OR CISTERN COOLER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3,1916.

Application led December 6, 1915. Serial No. 65,380.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES F. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bland, in the county of Gasconade and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Well or Cistern Coolers; and I do declare ythe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to coolers or refrigerators of the class that is mounted in wells or cisterns for keeping the contents of the refrigerator cool.

The object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, cheap and etlicient apparatus of this character which may be applied to any well or cistern and which may be readily applied or removed. l

Another object of the invention isto provide a refrigerator of this character equipped with improved ventilating means.

lVith the above and other objects in View*t the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a. front elevation of the improved refrigerator showing the application thereof to use; Fig. 2 is a vertical section as seen on the plane of the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4 are horizontal sections taken on the lines 3-3 and 4-4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the provision safe or cage; and Fig. 6` is a detail vertical section taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2.

The improved refrigerator or 'cooler constituting this invention comprises a platform 1 which is here shown composed of supcrposed sections 2 and 3 secured together by screws or bolts and between which a laterally extending Harige 4 formed on the upper end of the refrigerator casing 5 is clamped and by means of which said casing is held in operative position within the Well, although it may be otherwise secured. This platform 1 may be a separate device secured within the ordinary platform of a well or it may constitute a part thereof. This platform 1 has an opening 6 therein which registers,A with the refrigerator casing 5, being of the same diameter as said casing and is designed to be normally covered by a hinged closure 7 which is here shown provided on cross section although it may be of any other cross sectional contour, being here shown secured to the platform by a flat base or flange 12. Mounted on the upper end of this standard 11 is a T coupling 13, having an arm 14 mounted therein and which projects over the opening in the platform 1 and another arm 14 extending in the opposite direction, the two arms 14 and 14 and the coupling 13 constituting the head of the T- shaped standard. A crank shaft 15 is revolubly mounted in said coupling, one end of which carries a pulley 16 which is here shown fixed to the shaft by means of nuts 17 which are mounted on either side of-the pulley and engaged with a screw threaded portion 18 of the crank shaft to provide for adjustment of the pulley on said shaft to position it to one side or the other thereof as may be desired to locate it properly relatively to the well in connection with which it is to be used. This pulley is also Shown provided on its opposite faces with wear plates or washers 19 against which the nuts 17 are designed to bear and which securely hold the pulley clamped to the shaft and adapt it to rotate therewith on the turning of the shaft. A brake 2() is mounted on the other arm 14 of the coupling 13 and is in the form of an internally threaded collar 21 threaded on said T arm 14, having an operating handle or arm 21 extending radially therefrom and by means of which said collar is advanced or receded on said arm 14, a crank handle 22 being fixed to the crank shaft 15 on the end adjacent the brake and is shown secured thereto by a collar 22 having a set screw to provide for its adjustment on said shaft, said brake collar being adapted to engage the handle collar 22 and lock the shaft 15 and entirely prevent rotation thereof or to retard the speed of said shaft according to the tightness with which said collars are engaged. The handle 22 isy adjustable so as to position it as close as possible to the brake without engaging it so that a partial turn only of the brake collar is necessary to cause it to engage the handle collar 22.

In applying the pulley to the crank shaft, the innermost nut 17 is first screwed on the threaded portion 18 until it reaches the desired point, the pulley is then inserted on said threaded portion and the other nut 17 screwed on said shaft until it closely enga es the opposed face of the pulley and relialy clamps it between the two nuts.

The casin 5 of the refrigerator may be composed o any suitable material, preferably of thin metal to permit the cool atmosphere in the well surrounding said casing, to impart its temperature to the interior of the casing and thereby cool the contents thereof. This casing 5 may be of any desired or suitable length to extend it into the well as far as may be required to impart the necessary coolin-g effect to the contents thereof. A reversed J -shaped Ventilating pipe 23 is connected at one end of its short arm with the bottom of the casing 5 and its long arm extends upwarly parallel with said casing through an aperture 1n in the platform 1 to a point above said platform and has its free end open and bent laterally outward to protect it against the entrance of dust and the like, said open end affording atmospheric communication with the bottom of the casing so that fresh air may be supplied to said casing at all times and which is also designed as a discharge for water used in washing out the casing, a cage to be described, serving when lowered as a piston for forcing out the water through said pipe 23 and which is also designed as a discharge for water used in washing out the casing, the water being siphoned or otherwise drawn out of the casing through said pipe.

A food safe or container 24 is here shown for vertical movement in the casing 5 and comprises a plurality of vertically spaced shelves 25 having upstanding flanges 26 of any desired height which are made circular A to conform to the cross sectional contour of the casing 5 which is shown cylindrical. Any desired number of these plates or shelves 25 may be employed, four being here shown and which are connected and held in spaced relation by standards or strips 27 preferably composed of metal, three of which are here shown having their inner ends engaged with the lowermost plate 25. These strips are secured to the respective plates or shelves at the periphery thereof by suitable fastening elements 28 and the shelves are secured any suitable distance apart according to the height of the articles to be carried thereby. The upper ends of these strips 27 extend some distance above the uppermost shelf 25 and are bent laterally inward toward each other with their ends arranged in overlapping relation and provided with registering apertures to receive an eye-bolt 28 for connecting them, a nut 29 being secured to said bolt on its inner end and a washer 30 being arranged adjacent the eye thereof and between which and said nut the overlapping ends of the strips are clamped. A flexible element 31 in the form of a cable is shown connected with an eye 32 of the bolt 28 and is designed to extend over the pulley 16, being provided at its free end with a weight 33 for counter-balancing the safe and to assist in retaining the cable in engagement with the pulley so that on the turning thereof, the safe 24 will be raised, the turning of said pulley operating to move the cable in either direction, according to the direction in which the pulley is turned.

While this refrigerator casing 5 is preferably constructed of thin sheet metal, it is to be understood that it may be composed of any other suitable material such as tiling or the like, the latter being especially desirable when a permanent casing is to be built within the well during the construction thereof.

In the operation of this improved refrigerator, the safe being in raised position above the platform ready to receive the food 0r other articles to be lowered into the casing, the weight 33 will be sufficient to counter-balance the weight of the safe and will serve to prevent the safe from dropping forcibly into the casing. After the material to be cooled has been placed on the shelves of the safe, the crank shaft is turned in the proper direction to cause the lowering of the safe against the resistance of the weight 33 and after it has been lowered to its extreme limit or to the desired point within the casing, the closure 7 is closed and the notches 9 and 10 thereof receive the ventilating pipe 23 and the cablerespectively as is shown in Fig. 3. When it is desired to remove the contents of the refrigerator, the closure is opened, the pulley turned in the opposite direction, thereby elevating the safe until it passes up through the opening in the platform to expose its contents ready for removal, the weight 33 assisting in the raising of the safe and in holding it in raised position. The brake may be turned to cause it to frictionally engage the crank handle and either lock the shaft against turning entirely or retard its speed as may be desired. If found desirable a brake stop 34 may be provided for limiting the upward swinging movement of the brake.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a cistern having a platform provided with an opening; of a tubular water-tight casing open at its upper and closed at its lower end, said casing having its open end communicating with the opening in said platform and depending from and supported by said platform, a reversed J-shaped ventilator and Water discharge pipe having the terminal of its short arm opening through the bottom of said casing, the portion of said pipe connecting the arms thereof extending under the, bottom of the casing and its long arm extending upwardly beyond the top thereof throu h said platform, and a cage having means or moving it vertically in said casing.

Q. In a well or cistern cooler, the combination with a platform having an opening therein and a cage extending into said opening, a. bearin supported on said platform, a crank sha t revolubly mounted in said bearing and projecting through the opposite ends thereof, a pulley fixed to one end of said shaft and a crank handle adjustably secured to its other end, the adjacent end of said bearing being externally threaded, a brake collar internally threaded atl adjustably engaged with said threaded bearing end, a handle radiating from said collar, a stop for said brake arranged in the path of said handle, a cable passing over said pulley and secured at one end to said cage, and a counterbalancing weight on the other end of said cable.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES I". PHILLIPS. Witnesses:

RUTH S. WHITE, NEAL J. IVHITE. 

